This is "cheap eats" thread, but I'd say for budget "good value" instead of just "cheap". You can't expect to eat steak for hotdog prices, can you?
Cafes, food courts, accessible places, rather than "fine dining".
As for cuisine, something "yummy" I like lots of different things.... but plain "normal" food, not "weird" things. For example, a salad with grains and veggies and yummy dressing, not one with duck toes and a dressing made with the scrapings of the sweat off a tibetan monk. Examples of what I like: vietnamese, korean, italian, greek (I used to go to a greek place on Elizabeth st that did this wonderful braised okra and avgolemono, but I bet that's long gone), chinese, japanese, fry ups (sometimes), salads, kebabs (good ones), souvlaki, mexican, really good sandwiches on good bread etc. I like veggies more than meat and my 2 favourite "food groups" are ginger and garlic I love fish, but not other seafood.

I'd like somewhere good that does full breakfast or a buffet (for some reason, when I go places, I start wanting fry up breakfast when I never have breakfast at home, and stuffing your face before you start traipsing about seems like a good idea), a good noodle house/asian, good burgers/steak sandwiches, places like that where you can score something horrible if you don't know where to pick. Any recommendations for anywhere good, really. Somewhere "normal" that doesn't have inflated prices because of "hype". No "wank factor".

On Sussex St
Sushi Rio, Train sushi, I think for lunch all plates are $3.5? $3.8??? , If you want the fried stuff order in from the little menu sheets

Across the road from rio, there is a chinese spicy noodle shop, where you chuck what you want into a basket, then they charge you by weight. From memory the white sauce you can add at the end is garlic

I can still get a half-decent one for $4 at the takeaway in Seven Hills near work (western sydney). City places minimum $5-$6 now.
Heaps of viet-run bakeries in Sydney suburbs do a good banh mi in various styles (traditionl pork, pork belly, shredded chicken) for $4-$5.
Eastwood/Ryde/Ermington, Epping/Carlingford, Hornsby, Inner West suburbs and points further out west, northern beaches...
I've found a decent looking bakery for a $5 lunch in all these places ($7 with a can/bottle of water).
I note that we're splitting hairs over a couple of bucks here. But maybe that's important for travellers or students on a budget etc.

Anyone in Chatswood or St Leonards after an awesome Banh Mi for closer to the $7 that MR CHILLED mentioned, look up "Saigon Rolls".
Try their pork + crackling, pork belly, pork rissole rolls, all as tasty as... something that is very very tasty indeed.
They do Pho, salads etc. too

Also in St Leonards, "Ace Noodle" is excellent value for excellent food. #N9 Wonton noodle soup, BBq pork pad see ew and their laksas all highly recommended.
I get a meal from them at least once a week, never had a bad dish. Try the fish cakes too, if you're into that.

This is "cheap eats" thread, but I'd say for budget "good value" instead of just "cheap". You can't expect to eat steak for hotdog prices, can you?
Cafes, food courts, accessible places, rather than "fine dining".
As for cuisine, something "yummy" I like lots of different things.... but plain "normal" food, not "weird" things. For example, a salad with grains and veggies and yummy dressing, not one with duck toes and a dressing made with the scrapings of the sweat off a tibetan monk. Examples of what I like: vietnamese, korean, italian, greek (I used to go to a greek place on Elizabeth st that did this wonderful braised okra and avgolemono, but I bet that's long gone), chinese, japanese, fry ups (sometimes), salads, kebabs (good ones), souvlaki, mexican, really good sandwiches on good bread etc. I like veggies more than meat and my 2 favourite "food groups" are ginger and garlic I love fish, but not other seafood.

I'd like somewhere good that does full breakfast or a buffet (for some reason, when I go places, I start wanting fry up breakfast when I never have breakfast at home, and stuffing your face before you start traipsing about seems like a good idea), a good noodle house/asian, good burgers/steak sandwiches, places like that where you can score something horrible if you don't know where to pick. Any recommendations for anywhere good, really. Somewhere "normal" that doesn't have inflated prices because of "hype". No "wank factor".

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Dixon Foodcourt in Chinatown is still pretty decent, though the prices of the various stalls has gone up a bit. Same goes for EatingWorld foodcourt in Chinatown. Plenty of variety, standard is good for the price, nil wank factor but a few of the individual stores within the court can be hit and miss. Spice alley is okay, a bit trendier than the Chinatown foodcourts but prices are alright. Oiden on George St (in another foodcourt) is pretty good, reminds me of a place that I'd eat lunch at in Japan - not spectacular but it meets the mark. Mappen is next door to Oiden and does udon/soba and always has a decent crowd during the day.